Musical toy



Marh 9 1926. 1,575,961

W. BARTHQLOMAE MUSICAL TOY Filed qne 1 1925 Patented Mar. 9, ieae.

v IVY-UNITED W WILLIAM nAn'rnoLo wAn, or innooxmzn, NEW YORK, ASSIG'NOB.r BAR-ZIM TOY MFG; 00., me er NEW YORK, N'.-Y., AOORPORATION OF NEWYORK.

MUSIGAL TOY.

Application filed June l, 1925. Serial No. 34,203. I i

" 1 To all whom it may concern;

Be it known that I, OMAE, a citizen of the United States of America, anda resident of the borough ofBrook 6 lyn, in: the city of New York,county of n Kings,1an d State of New. York, have invented certain newand useful Improvements in Musical "Toys, OfWlliChflthe following isa'specification, reference being had !)v to-the accompanying drawings,forming part .thereof. 3 This invention relates toimprovements inmusical toys and particularly-to improve- I ment'sin that typeor'kind ofmusical toys infwhich. there are provided several sounding elements theform ofbars or the like that have been 'given "various, forms or shapesheretofore. In 'playingrp'rior musical toys of this A general class, thesounding elements have been tapped with the ball shaped I end of a smallstick. ,An object of this invention resides in'the-provision of amusical toy of this typehaving sounding ele ments that are designed andadapted to be lightly rubbe d, from end to end, with a sidewisestrokeflcrosswise of the toy, whereby there may be produced music, thathas been 7 likened tor-the soundingof chimes. Tothis end, the face .ofthe sounding elements that is arranged;to-betouchedby the players stickis given a .ridged surface, which may be produced in 'various' ways,some of which are hereinafter described. 'Anothe r object ofthisinvention lies in the provision of the 5 sounding elements withlips, by the formation of which the note given forth by the.

' 3 element is varied and improved. A third object of this inventionconsists in the novel and improved mounting provided for the 40 soundingelements in the frame or base of.

- -the toy. Other features of this invention will bebroiight outas thedescription pro grasses.

In the a e-Wags illustrating the principle of this invention'and thebest mode now" known to me of applyingthatvprinciple,

Fig. 1' is a plan vlew'of themusical toy,

I pa'rtsbeing shown broken at A; Fig; 2' is a fragmentary sideelevation; Fig. 3 is altrans- 0 verse section onthe line 3'3,'of Fig. 1;Figs. 4, 5and 6 are detail views illustrating, in section,soundingelements provided with r lips'that are difierently formed, Fig.is a detail view illustrating, in ect1on,' a frag I 5 meat f a soundinge1e ment, the rubbing or WILLIAM Burnoustroking face of which is formedwith corrugations; Fig, 8 is a'detail'v-iew illustrating, inperspective,'a modified form of sounding elementyand Fig, 9 is :a detailillustrating still another form ofridged playing faceof a soundingelement.

v As will be seen from'an lnspection'of Fig,

1, the base or support B is, in plan view,

trapezoidal; in form, the end-blocks w, b, lyingpara-llel to each other,while thesidewalls 0, cl, converge towards "eachiother so that theend-block a is smaller than the other end-block b. "The side-'walls'c,d, are, at

their bottoms, formed with inwardly-turned flanges 0 d, the edges 0", d,of which are finished off by being doubled back upon the flanges 6,01.Along their tops, thesider walls 0, d, are formedfwith recesses .efarranged to receive 1 the sounding or musicemitting elements f.- Therecesses e. are

separated by upstandinglugs or posts'g, the

upper ends ofwhich are formed withguideloops or eyes '9'. Assh'ownin'Figs. 2 to 6, inclusive, the sounding elements 7 have a substantiallyinverted U shape, in end view and cross 'section, and the walls Itthat'extend lengthwise offthe' sounding element f and downwardly fromthe playingj(or rubbing) :surface 41 thereof," are formed with holesfjthatare arranged to receive a cord lo thatis threaded through the eyesgfand that passes outside of the end-block b fanjd the ends .of whichare" held the button m that iscarried by the othe'r. end-block a.

This mode 'of su'spension of the sounding elements reduces damping ofthe vibra-' tions and results in the tone emitted being more sustainedand more pure.

I have dlscovered that an improved tone is obtained from the extendingelement 7, when its lengthwise and downwardly extendbe bent from thewalls It as'is shown at h (Fig. 2), or at hi (Fig. 4). Orthese lips maybe curved inwardly as at h? (Fig. 5), or they may be curved outwardly,as at 70* (Fig.6). v

An important feature of this invention resides in the provision of thetop or playing face i with a ridged surface, which the player strokes orrubs with the ball-shaped end of his playing stick or a like device).This rid ed or ;wav urface may be given to the slaying face z in variousways; e. 2, the ringed contour may be P'XOtltld 5 ing walls 71. areformed with lips, which may t forming series'of raised portions orprotuberances 21 (Figs. 2zand-3)" that are spaced from one another, sothat a music'altone ornote. isemitted by the-sounding element f whenthe. playingzisti'ck is stroked or passed lightly over the prominences iof the playing surface 2' of the element ffrom 'endto end thereof ortransversely of the toy-base B. Or, as is shown in Fig. 7 the playingforiningitwith alternate swells i, andvalleys i, that is, it may be'W-rihkled or corrugated. In; F ig'. 8 the-sounding]element hasafplayingfacee that is ridged by forming it With a series offroniinences or bosses n that are separated y'the, grooves n and areflattened at their tops n; In

Fig.9, the playing-face'ilof the; element f is given a ridged or bossedcontour by the provisionof the'rounded humps or teats 0*.

In all' thesei eases, the spaced ridge-forms,

ing" prominences are of such; slight BlViLtlOll above the levelcf'. theplaying'face' the to permit the musicalv'soundsto be produced by wi ingtheridged playing face 71 of the sounding elements f, f, f, with theplaying stick in an-c unobstructed or uninterrupted (that is,c'ontinuous) rubbing acr'o ss-stroke from; end to end'of' these "ele theSPa edJidge fOI'niing promidistinctly understood that- '1 I fullyrealize that cl'ianges may be made inthe structure herein disclosed, andthat "I-j intendfto-include' Within the scopeofz theclaims that ifollowhereinafter all modificationsio-f' the referred form of this inventionthat do not depart substantially from thespirit' thereof. For example,instead of flattening thetops 'n"? 'of the ribs n (Fig. 8 the tops ofthe latter maybe made more or. less sharp,;so I I [1,024,878. face ofthe element f". may berridgedby that. they will give the playingj facea" a'45" toothed or notched contour-y that is, the ridged playing face amay be serrated.

' In the claims. that. follow, the elements I o are described:music-emitting. elements and so are distinguished from frame-forming orsupporting elements, such as the channel-bars a, c, of my priorPatent,No.

I claim: v y 1. A musicaltoy having music-emitting elementsof'varyingpitch the playing-faces of which elementsare ridged by low-lying, jspaced prominences and arranged to emit musical sounds when strokedWitha play-1 ing-stick, such prominences being of music? producingquality and; having such slight elevation above thepla'ying-f'aces as toafi'ord'i-the' playing-stick free passage in" a rubbing 'musicp'rod'ucing' stroke l'engthivfi. of the elements and over theprominences.

2. A1 musical toy the, 1nusic emittii1g ele-; f ments of Which arechanneled'and have side '5 walls that are formed with lips.

31Av musical my including a base-supff 1 port formed with recesses;music-emitting -I I elements arranged in the recesses, saidele ment s'being U-shaped in: cross-section,

formingvlateral.Walls which areperforate di, g and a cord that'is rovethrough the holes'inl 3 f the lateral, Walls of the elements and; that75,- 1 secures the latterto" thebase-support "and supports theni'inthe-recesses;

41A musical toy-having music-emitting" elements of varyingpi'tchi; theplayingfaces o of? said elements being ridgedfiand arranged f to emitmusical sounds whenstrok'ed with v,: a playing'stick over the"inequalitiesof they ridged playing surfaces; such" inequalities l, beingof music-producing quality and affording the playing stickfre'epassagefi'n a'rubbing. music-producingstroke;

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